I set up a twitter account today. It wasn't out of the blue, I was installing the twitter module for a client (works great btw). Yet, I'd be a liar if I denied flirting with the idea of twittering. After about 3 hours, I decided I didn't want to twitter.

I've begun a quest in finding the opposite of twitter, for I feel that quest will reward me with happiness.

I had this weird idea: drupal has become so complex, with so many moving parts, that understanding the big picture is like predicting the weather. I forgot how long ago this was, but I know this would have been an accurate report:

Nothing makes you feel "not so special" like having the majority of your daily comments -- that pass captchas mind you -- left by bottom feeding SEO consultants. Now before I explain why these consultants are bottom feeders, and why you could teach an 8 year old chimp to do their job* (which they charge upwards $75.00 by the hour!... adding insult to injury) let me tell you why I can't defend myself.

A friend of mine, Anthony Alofsin, started a blog. He's primarily know for his contributions to the field of architecture, as a professor, and author of over 20 books on the subject. His interest in blogging, however, is literature, and -- i think -- challenging, and subverting a few of today's fashionable institutions of thought.

"I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual
construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation. We still make
syntax errors, to be sure; but they are fuzz compared with the conceptual errors in most systems."